Was watching a great 2010 interview with
Steve Jobs
. One interviewer asked why
Apple
wasn't supporting
Adobe
Flash
, which at the time was The way to make interactive UIs... remember back then the interactive web was still nascent. As in many developers would make an Adobe Flash application and their websites would simply load that into the page.
Apple bucked the trend by not supporting that in their default browsers that came with the
iPhone
and
iPad
The interviewer hilariously talks about this great app that was 'so good'. I don't even know if it exists anymore. But he was using it as an example for the consequences for not supporting software such as Flash.
Jobs remarks about how there's plenty of software in the bygone days that were huge and that constantly new
software
will win out. Also he accurately and astutely stated that they are open to supporting respectable standards such as
HTML
5 in this case.
The
software
Keith wrote automated the orderly guy's schedule down in
Westcity
. Now all his food was delivered to him. Fake messages from his friends' phone numbers arrived at his inbox to which he would respond. Keith's script intercepted these messages, prevented them from going to the friends' devices....
I observe that it's because back in the old days before
software
facilitated meetings, we had fewer scheduled events per day. This meant that we allocated more attention/preparation to those fewer events.
We are currently in schedule
shrinkflation
where each event/meeting is worth less and you end up having more of them.
My thinking mirrors yours about Email's longevity due to its simplicity.
All these email softwares are just bolton user interfaces -- albeit with backend
software
to facilitate and make those UIs possible -- ontop of the email protocol.
I'm glad the email protocol itself has remained simple.
For more complex protocols to be formed we have the experimental laboratory that is the emerging
Blockchain
s
Much of
software
are abstract concepts defined by the engineer.
Most
emotions
referenced in colloquial terms -- like happiness, sadness are abstract concepts. There are underlying drivers to the eventual concept but the concept itself is still abstract by the time the human mind that is experiencing the underlying coins it as 'this is me being happy'
abstract concepts
can be useful for managing complexity and making information systems out of them as lego blocks.
They can be quite unuseful and cause much suffering when people enslave their sense of wellbeing to them.
Church of Twitter
Facebook
Uber
Google
group chat
Telegram
UX
software
internet
Elon Musk
Martin Luther
billionaire
infrastructure
big tech
cloud
designers
The
Church of Twitter
has had a busy week. The mobs either crowning
Elon Musk
as contemporary
Martin Luther
or another
billionaire
buying his way into societal
infrastructure
.
Independent of this, my friend remarked that if
Facebook
were to disappear tomorrow that there would be non net-negative impact to society....
I used to think
Paul Graham
was crazy for writing his blog posts using
vim
.
This past month I've spent so much time in the
command line
and learning all these keyboard shortcuts that I can finally see how one could write on a terminal text editor.
IV
This would be a boring story if it were just of me running a software
consultancy
and hanging out with my startup founder friend for
coffee
here and there. That is not what this story is about. Today I'm no longer involved with that old devshop. My partner and...
SPA
frontend
backend
Facebook
SMB
consultancy
MVC
Ruby on Rails
HTML
API
software
web applications
Google
We specialized in
web applications
. There was actually a time when we considered going into desktop and native applications, but the demand for web apps was just too big that I guess my partner and I never even had the chance to decide. Our path was chosen for us.
... is because people are not wise enough to want the things that they want.
We go about living thinking we want things, so sure that we know just what it is that we want. But unlike how a person with no background in
software
would claim not to know...
The reason why so many founders are finding success in
B2B
SaaS
is because of how slow incumbent organizations move.
It's expensive to create the simplest of
software
within these established walls. You can't just get started hacking on the cheap as there's a bunch of bureaucratic boxes that need to...
Do, delegate, dropWilliam Liao
illuminated a deep, root-source of organizational inefficiency and teammate misery: an outdated delegation process.
Organizations regularly upgrade their software because it's easier to see how inefficient
software
slows them down.* But organizations rarely grasp how inefficient their delegation...
